Heavy Hitters: The Digital Industrial Podcast

Honeywell Connected Enterprise Chief Commercial Officer, Usman Shuja, shares his experiences leading digital industrial innovation efforts within both a Fortune 100 industrial conglomerate and a hyper-growth, venture-backed startup. It's a rare combination within the digital industrial ecosystem to find someone who has led commercialization efforts at both ends of that spectrum, and we're fortunate to have Usman walk us through his outlook on what works and what doesn't work to scale in these industries.

As both a seasoned venture capital investor and corporate innovation changemaker, SE Ventures General Partner, Grant Allen, discusses his outlook on how corporate venture capital investing is evolving and expanding to better suit the broad range of corporate innovation approaches in market. And given his leadership experience linked to industrial giants Schneider Electric and ABB, Grant shares his lessons learned on what it takes to scale innovation efforts within these nuaced environments.

To kick off the Heavy Hitters podcast series, Rick Bullota joins us to discuss all aspects of past and present digital industrial innovation. Having spent his entire career focused on industrials, Rick provides a rare outlook on the topic as both an experienced operator and proven venture investor. His vantage point comes both from starting and exiting a number of successful industrial software companies, most notably Lighthammer and Thingworx, and from holding senior roles at companies such as SAP, Wonderware/Aveva, PTC, and Microsoft. We could not be more fortunate to have Rick share his lessons learned on launching, operating, scaling and investing in digital industrial businesses.

Join us as deep dive into the world of digital industrial innovation. Bridging innovative technology companies into legacy industrial industries may not get the same glitz & glamour as other parts of the venture capital ecosystem, but these “digital industrial” innovators are critical behind-the-scenes to advancing the way our world designs, builds, distributes and operates daily. Welcome to the Heavy Hitters podcast, the first podcast dedicated solely to bringing this important discussion of digital industrial innovation into the spotlight it deserves. I’m your host Ty Findley, and along with my partners, run Ironspring Ventures a venture capital fund focused on investing in early-stage digital industrial companies. I’ve spent the last decade immersed in the digital industrial ecosystem as both an operator and investor talking with hundreds of founders, investors and industry veterans about their experiences innovating within these legacy industries. And on this podcast, we’ll pull the curtain back to talk with these industrial thought-leaders about their learnings on launching, operating, scaling and investing in digital      industrial companies and capabilities.  The objective is simple. We simply cannot afford to leave these critical industries, and the amazing skilled labor powering them, behind the on-going technology wave. We hope this podcast fosters a new community of listeners to engage and help us collectively write a new chapter for the future of industrials.